>Being an ol' mainframe guy of 35+ years who has looked at a lot of >languages, I say REXX in conjunction with PIPELINES is unbeatable in terms >of writing speed and conciseness. You can get a lot of function in a few >lines of code.
I'm not sure that is a what we really need - for example I suspect that one can get even more with APL ! My own "vote" is that Perl's capabilities and power are more important than its rough edges. (As another ol' mainframe guy of ... years - the jobs I had to do in SNOBOL4 or SPITBOL on the mainframe go much better today in Perl on any platform.) --henry schaffer P.S. I'm more ol' than ever, but have pretty much moved out of mainframe.
